Related Quotes
below childlike grass imagine leaves perhaps pretend share sorts unlike
Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies. Mohsin Hamid
below earnings goal improvement increase operations per pleased results share though year
We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time. J. Hoover
below league level maybe players
We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that.
below brick days directly filming four looking minutes realised seen spent viewpoint
We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.
below brothers cents contrast number obviously saw stark
When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.
below concentration level normal sentences strange
When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you. John Banville
below farmers forced guaranteed harvest invest lose prices production
When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops. Nell Newman
below blood irish living warm
We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.
below danger happening knew living orleans sea
When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. Charles Caleb Colton
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
consumers energy high higher lost oil pay prices though
The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.
consumer positive strong
We are positive on stocks, especially those that are benefiting from very strong U.S. consumer demand.
consumers expect general gentle happier housing market pickup recovery retail sales seeing stronger wealth
We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.
consumer continued corporate economy slowing spending
There are continued uncertainties, ... The U.S. economy is slowing and commensurate with that is slowing consumer spending and corporate spending.
consumer growth income retail robust signs source spending suggesting wage
There are some encouraging signs in retail sales, but if you look at what the source of consumer spending is, it's really income growth, and wage growth has been lackluster, suggesting the consumer will not be robust going forward. Scott Brown
consumer education impact insurance life provide rather unbiased
We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works. Bob Brown
consumers huge positive revision wages
While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.
consumers customer department issues resolve seem service telephone
We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.
consumers tried
We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,
effect feedback fuel jet normal pleased received report supply
We are pleased to report that we have received feedback from the jet fuel consortium to the effect that supply will be back to normal by this weekend.
effect energy higher prices
We are going to see the effect of higher energy prices trickle up to the middle-income consumers.
effect good wonder
My actions and the things I say and do, I wonder if they have an effect on my daughter and the way she's going to be as a person. I just want her to be a good person. Leah Remini
effects great talk year
When you talk about effects of (winning that game), in any one year it doesn't have that great of an effect,
effective-listening listening
Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. David Hockney
effective forces gravity known objects stuff
We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched. Neil deGrasse Tyson
effective exercise group major patients performed reducing seems showing standard studies symptoms
What the studies are showing is that exercise, at least when performed in a group setting, seems to be at least as effective as standard antidepressant medications in reducing symptoms in patients with major depression,
effect george pockets retailers roll sales tried
When (former Gov. George Ryan's) administration tried to roll back the sales tax, it just went into the pockets of refiners and retailers and had no effect on prices,
effectiveness too-much loses
If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness. Bob Ross
gross people
People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling. Stuart Scott
gross home multiple pay revenue sales signals television theatrical video
There are multiple revenue streams, so theatrical gross is important because it signals the subsequent revenue through home video rentals, sales of DVDs, pay television and others.
gross margins pressure worries
But what worries me is that you're going to see pressure on gross margins as film declines.
gross mere negligence neither suggest
I would suggest there's some sloppiness here. Neither mere negligence or gross negligence will suffice. David Johnson
gross leg players until
The players thought it was pretty gross because my leg was just black. I limped around until the end of January. Brent Sutter
gross heard looked people saying time
I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset. Anna Kendrick
gross performance team unhappy
To say we're unhappy with the performance of the team is a gross understatement.
gross results
To say I find these results unacceptable would be a gross understatement,
gross habits income lies net problem
My problem lies with reconciling my gross habits with my net income Errol Flynn
increasing power yesterday
We started increasing power at 8:30 yesterday (Saturday) morning. Robert Williams
increasing vibration
I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life. Neale Donald Walsch
increasing itself kids means
What's really increasing more than anything is that we're getting more kids to take the SAT. That in and of itself means more kids are considering post-secondary education, which is tremendous. That's what they need to do. Robert Adams
increasing suffering
She had been suffering increasing amounts of pain.
increasing name problem terms
Minnesotans don't know him. And so he will have a problem in terms of increasing his name recognition and visibility. Steve Frank
increasing oppressed oppression power religious women
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions. Nawal El Saadawi
increasing
I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac. Gail Kelly
increasing
You don't make a system more effective by increasing the number of regulators.
increasing issues knows trend
I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.
likely rockets solid violent whether
Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular. Henry Spencer
likely puts september window
We're going to have to make some modifications to the tank, so that probably puts the September (launch) window into a not very likely possibility.
likely understanding
We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental. David Carr
likely meaning ourselves setting tie
When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we're more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line. Kris Carr
likely volume
I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a single volume story and not the start of a series. Erin Morgenstern
likely normally problem
Least likely normally to have a problem is the kicker. Dick Vermeil
likely multiple parties
Settlement talks, if any, will likely be very complex, with multiple parties involved. Henry Blodget
likely problem
The overcrowding problem is likely to get worse.
likely overall remain sales somewhat total
The overall total of nominal sales is likely to remain somewhat weak.
margins
The place where our margins are really being impacted is in Japan, Arun Sarin
margins
I like being on the margins. You work better there. Billy Childish
margins optimistic pc positive profit quarter second sector third trend tv weak
The PC sector is weak in the first quarter but I am still optimistic for the whole year. That's because the trend for the TV sector is positive so profit margins should go up from the second and third quarters.
margins power pricing profit remain
Because pricing power has disappeared, profit margins will remain under significant pressure.
margins outlook profit recent size unseen
The size of the outlook revision, unseen in recent years, was a big surprise. Profit margins are dropping.
margins plan realize
I realize that the margins are being squeezed, ... We have a plan for that. David Harris
margins
The margins story is better than expected. Things are getting better for manufacturers.
margins sales
The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,
operating rate regular resume slow work
We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.
operating-systems programmers defined
To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API. Charles Petzold
operating point result slightly
From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.
operating point reward risk taxpayers
From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.
operating purpose time turn
What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.
operating paper piece
We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.
operating point room
My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients. Atul Gawande
operating policy result work
The operating result was good, but the company's hedging policy didn't work out this time.
operating release sales toward windows
Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.
perhaps written
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
perhaps studied
You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is. Azim Premji
perhaps
I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates. Tad Williams
perhaps trial
For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit. Trey Gowdy
perhaps
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
perhaps periods
When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.' Wentworth Miller
perhaps
We don't know what ignited it, perhaps a leak.
perhaps
You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all. Alexander McCall Smith
perhaps policy using
Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept. Oliver Kahn